| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Goran Thyni <goran(at)bildbasen(dot)se> |
| Cc: | jamesh(at)interpath(dot)com, maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] postmaster crash and .s.pgsql file |
| Date: | 1998-01-29 13:03:45 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.3.95.980129080157.7021B-100000@hub.org |
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On 29 Jan 1998, Goran Thyni wrote:
>
> > I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to
>
> That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not
> allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere
>
> Maybe both should be under /usr/local/pgsql
> somewhere, so they will not be removed by any
> '/tmp'-clean-up-scripts.
I don't agree with this either.../tmp is world
readable/writable...what happens if 'joe blow user' decides for whatever
reason to initdb a database in his personal directory space and run a
postmaster process of his own? (S)he'd be running the same system binary,
just under her own userid...
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